> >> While reading through sound/soc/codecs/wm8994.c I noticed a fair> >> amount of trailing whitespace. This patch gets rid of it.> >>> >> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>> >> > Jesper,> >> > is it really worth it? The code should have been fixed before merging,> > yes, but once it's there, such fixups tend to only make people angry> > (because they have to do unnecessary extra steps during git blame).> > If I may interject, I assume you mean that nobody wants to see the> fact that somebody simply changed whitespace. However, the text of> `git help blame' suggests that the `-w' flag obviates the issue:> > Ignore whitespace when comparing the parent's> version and the child’s to find where the lines> came from.> > Of course, I've never used it, so I may be mistaken in my > interpretation.

That indeed does what it should do, but as it's not git default, then quitting git blame and reruning it with '-w' seems to be equally annoying to quitting git blame and reruning it with 'particular_commit~1"